Mullin Coal Mine Traditional Cache
240 Jordy: Sounds like another one of my ammo cans is gone.
Time to say good bye.
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The view here is kind of neat, you can either drive to within about 100 meters of the cache, or if you choose you can park down below and walk up the road. We reccomend the walk as you'll see more of the history. Along the side you can still see remnants of old buildings.
This is the Mullin Strip Mine - The chute you see on the lower portion (where the Blakeburn Cache is) was built to support this portion of the area.
Normally we say take nothing - but here feel free to take a piece of Coal with you.
From the cache site (tucked behind some trees) you can see the beauty of the Coal - look at the way it lies in the mountain, and the changes and in the minerals, and from the other side - what a view below.
A few facts about the total quanitity in the area:
The deposit was initially explored by the B.C. Coal and Coke Company between 1908 and 1910. Columbia Coal and Coke Company (formerly B.C. Coal and Coke) continued development and eventually commenced production in 1912 with the opening of the No. 1 mine (nos. 2 and 4 tunnels). Coalmont Collieries Ltd. (formerly Columbia Coal and Coke) took over operations in 1914, opening up the No. 2 mine (nos. 2 and 6 tunnels) just west of the abandoned No. 1 mine in the same year. The No. 2 mine continued producing until 1923, and was replaced by the adjacent No. 3 mine to the west. This mine operated continuously between 1920 and 1935. Coalmont Collieries also operated the No. 4 mine (1924-1939) and the No. 5 mine (1936-1940), located successively farther northwest. Production from the deeper parts of the mines was limited by the squeezing of underground workings associated in part with the swelling action of bentonite seams. Total underground production amounted to 2,166,701 tonnes. Mullin's Strip Mine Ltd. produced an additional 148,268 tonnes at the Blakeburn strip mine between 1954 and 1957. This operation mined the 24-metre thick coal zone, situated between outcrop and the old workings of the No. 3 mine, in order to fuel Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company's steam-electric power station near Princeton. Total production between 1912 and 1957 is 2,314,970 tonnes.
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